A Study on the Health Promoting Behaviors Regarding Hospitalized Older Adult's Health in Zahedan

All human beings deserve healthy aging. The elderly are one of the groups that require special interventions in improving the health promoting behaviors to decrease the disability onset and to prevent the disease outbreak and premature deaths. Therefore, this study has been conducted to determine the health promoting behavior in elderly people admitted to hospitals in Zahedan. This analytical and descriptive study included 300 elderly people who had admitted to hospitals in Zahedan. The patients were chosen based on the convenience sampling method and questionnaire's data were collected through interviews. For data analysis, descriptive statistics (frequency and percentage) and inferential statistics (Chi-square test) were used. Of 300 elderly studied, 12.6% has smoked and 0.3 % has consumed alcohol. 26.3% has done exercise regularly, 51.3% had low-salt diet and57.7% had low-fat diet. 97.7, 64, 56 and 54.3% of the study group haven’t used vegetables, fruit, dairy and the recommended meat respectively. 31.3% had done the general examinations, and 9.3% had vaccinated against influenza in the last year. There was a statistically significant relationship between the most of health promoting behaviors and education, rural and urban residency while there was no statistically significant relationship between the health promoting behaviors and gender. According to the obtained results, planning for training and development of health promoting behavior in elderly people is essential.